The Web as a fact of Museum Life
David Bearman and Jennifer Trant,
Archives & Museum Informatics, USA
The fifth year of Museums and the Web comes at a time when the use of the Web by museums – and the need of museums to take advantage of the Web – are givens. No-one questions the appropriateness of a museum Web site, only how well it achieves the goals the museum has set, and how fully those goals encompass the mission that the museum could be taking on in an age of nearly ubiquitous, increasingly broad-band, and narrow-casting. Each of us now expects to be able to use the Web to get instant information about museum offerings both in-town and around the world. In North America we imagine receiving Web content on ever larger monitors at home and the office; in Europe, with the proliferation of cell phones and wireless PDAs, the dynamics of access may soon (if only for a short time) feel very different. But the assumption of instant information, on demand, anywhere, anytime, remains.
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